Facebook unveils news feed revamp

Facebook has announced it´s rolling out a "richer, simpler, more beautiful" news feed

Modern life can be hectic, so when surfing the web at the
weekend or after work it's nice when things are simple and easy to
use.

Now Facebook has unveiled a new design for its news feed which
it says is "richer and simpler".

Speaking on Thursday in the US, Facebook founder and chief
executive Mark Zuckerberg said he wanted to turn the news feeds
into the "best personalised newspaper".

As you probably already know, the news feed compiles a list of
photo, comment, video and status updates from a user's friends and
it's often the first port of call when logging on to the
site.

It is hoped the changes will reduce clutter, making news feeds
"richer, simpler, more beautiful", while giving users easier access
to stories they are actually interested in.

This will be achieved by splitting up stories into categories,
such as photos, music and news from the pages that users
like.

Zuckerberg made the announcement at Facebook's headquarters in
Menlo Park, California, on Thursday night and described it as a
"big change".

Many of us use Facebook for viewing and sharing photos and it's
thought the redesigned news feeds will place greater emphasis on
pics, making them larger and "more beautiful", while the revamp
will bring the site's look closer to its Android and iOS
apps.

Facebook said we would see the changes "in the coming
weeks".

Adverts are also expected to be bigger and more difficult to
ignore under the revamp.

This is shaping up to be a big year for the social network, with
this being the second major announcement of 2013 after Zuckerberg
unveiled a new search engine for content uploaded by users in
January.

Earlier this year the social networking giant reported 1.06
billion people were using its service at least once a month.